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📖What it means
Whether you could tell, from the outside, what a thing is doing and whether it is healthy. A process that works perfectly and reports nothing is unobservable, and therefore indistinguishable from a dead one.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Monitoring
Observability is the property of being knowable; monitoring is the act of watching.
Not: Audit
Observability is about the present; an audit judges against the rules.
🗣️Also called
visibilityinstrumentation